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"Saturday Night Live" is 40 years old this year. Forty years before its debut — Oct. 11, 1975, during the Ford administration — Jack Benny was in his third year on radio; the Marx Brothers were starring in "A Night at the Opera," their first movie without Zeppo; Bob Hope and Bing Crosby were still five years away from their first "Road" picture; and there was no TV at all. Forty years on, the world has changed, and changed again. The cast that launched "SNL" — the initials now suffice — are now in their 60s and 70s, and some are no longer of this Earth. But "Saturday Night Live" itself has proved remarkably...

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"Saturday Night Live" is 40 years old this year.
Forty years before its debut — Oct. 11, 1975, during the Ford administration — Jack Benny was in his third year on radio; the Marx Brothers were starring in "A Night at the Opera,"...

As its annual fundraiser this year, the Cinefamily has organized a series of events under the banner "Truth and Soul, Inc.: The films of Robert Downey, Sr. (A Prince)" as a tribute to the irreverent counterculture filmmaker. The program begins...

Peter Fonda suited up and slung his leg over the LiveWire, a prototype electric superbike from Harley-Davidson.
In seconds, he was gone, shouting as he left, "I love it! This is fantastic!"
Making his first pass, he threw a smile and a...

"The Merv Griffin Show, 1962-1986" (MPI Home Video). Even for many of us who remember the genuine article, the image of talk show host Merv Griffin is inextricably mixed up with the impression Rick Moranis unleashed on "SCTV":...

Despite reports that cast doubt on its provenance, a "Captain America" chopper purported to be the last remaining motorcycle used in the filming of the 1969 movie "Easy Rider" sold at auction Saturday night for $1.35 million -- or just...

This weekend, the gavel will fall at a Calabasas auction of the "Captain America" chopper used in the filming of the 1969 movie "Easy Rider."
Bidding for the gleaming vintage Harley-Davidson could reach $1.2 million, estimates the...

"Easy Rider": An article in the Oct. 17 Section A about the auction of a motorcycle said to have been used in the film "Easy Rider" said that the auction house Profiles in History offered actor Peter Fonda a share in the...

When the iconic actor, director and artist Dennis Hopper died in 2010 at the age of 74, his family discovered that he was something of a pack rat.
"After he died, there were so many things we found — his film awards, his collection of movies he...

Born to be wild, and designed for the 1969 motorcycle road movie "Easy Rider," the famous "Captain America" Harley-Davidson chopper will be on the auction block next month.
The auction house expects bidding for the...

With today's information onslaught, smartphone appendages and retail profiling, getting off the grid may seem like a uniquely 21st century desire. But the northern New Mexico town of Taos has been a go-to physical and spiritual oasis for people looking to...

No hint of the debonair playboy that earned Jude Law his first Oscar nomination for "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is found in the banged-up, bloated safecracker on the loose in "Dom Hemingway," a new black comedy that liberates the actor...

Though there's nothing terribly profound or unique about actor Jason Momoa's feature writing-directing debut, "Road to Paloma," it does prove an effective throwback to the loose-limbed, my-way-or-the-highway road movies of the "Easy...

Karen Black, a versatile actress whose name became virtually synonymous with films that reflected and helped define America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including “Five Easy Pieces,” died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 74.
Family spokesman Elliot...

After the coffee. Before getting too excited about preseason football.
The Skinny: The Redskins won their first preseason game Thursday night but I won't read too much into that. Still, it beats losing! Friday's headlines include a preview of the...

"Community" (NBC, Thursday). The low-rated and much-beloved comedy about a study group at a community college that is not about a study group at a community college so much as it is a comedy about a comedy about a study group at a community...

NEW YORK — "Before Midnight," Richard Linklater's third film about the relationship between an American man (Ethan Hawke) and French woman (Julie Delpy), closes with what might be the series' piece de resistance: a 30-minute hotel-room...

Karen Black, the bravely offbeat actress who burst into the public consciousness in such iconic counterculture films as "Five Easy Pieces" and "Easy Rider," has died. She was 74.
Black, who was found to have ampullary cancer in...

For many, the words "Brooklyn style" call to mind the easy cliché of a hipster in a hoodie.
Nothing could be further from the dressed-up truth for Michael Kuhle and Adele Berne, the married couple who started men's clothier Epaulet New...

DONALDSVILLE, La. — Late one evening last spring in this struggling but picturesque river town about an hour west of New Orleans, the never-ending saga of Bonnie and Clyde took an unexpectedly fiery twist.
Vintage 1930 Fords roared down the town's main...